Category: Adirondacks
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Early Spring Hike On Gore Mountain
When it comes to hiking New York’s Adirondack Mountains in early Spring, it’s more accurate to call it a late Winter hike. There may not be snow in the trees or along most of the ground, unless you’re in the High Peaks region, but once you gain some elevation and find shaded stretches of path,…
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Winter Hiking Buck Mountain
When I hike somewhere, I like to do a little research into the history behind the land that the trail cuts through. In the Adirondacks it usually doesn’t take much to dig up something related to military battles, Native American habitation, or even who originally blazed the trail. With Buck Mountain however, located just west of…
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Winter Hiking On Cat & Thomas Mountains
While looking for a moderately demanding trail that didn’t rise too high above sea level to worry about the mercurial nature of winter weather found on the Adirondack’s higher peaks, I came across the Cat & Thomas Mountains loop. I took a snowshoe hike up Thomas Mountain first, as I had a weekend free but…
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Black Mountain Peak & Point
Back in July of 2014, I went on a day hike in upstate New York’s Lake George Wilderness, at the southeastern edge of the Adirondack mountain range, that would expand on the typical Black Mountain Loop trail, traveling not only up and over the 2,649′ mountain, but also down to the shore of Lake George. From there,…